More Women Starting Businesses Isn’t Necessarily Good News
Quite honestly, I don't know what to make of this article. Are they talking about a brain drain, loss of talent or if women go their own way control is lost? There's a sour grapes feel to it as well. I'd appreciate opinions. Ironic that the woman writing it started her own business.
Morra Aarons-Mele is the founder of Women Online and The Mission List. She is an Internet marketer who has been working with women online since 1999. She helped Hillary Clinton log on for her first Internet chat, and launched Wal-Mart’s first blog. Morra tweets at @morraam.
Why are women starting businesses so fast? Women self-report that they often start businesses often to seize control of their time and schedule at work. And I understand the pull of leaving a strict corporate job for your own venture; I started my business in direct defiance of working for someone else.
Greater rates of small business creation seem like a good thing, but the economic impact of most women’s small businesses may not be what’s best for women, their families or the economy in the long run. As Alicia Robb from the Kauffman Foundation notes, “Less than 2 percent of women-owned firms reach that [million dollar] revenue threshold, and that is the same exact percentage as a decade ago.”Women-owned businesses are disproportionately in industries where the median receipts are less than $225,000 (and businesses with receipts less than $100,000 are more likely to fail). Most women struggle to replace their corporate salary, and 88% of women owned businesses are sole proprietorship, non-employer firms.
If women face lower upside in starting businesses, why do they do it? Perhaps because the fire of entrepreneurship is still preferable to the frying pan of established corporations.
Yes, women are graduating from college in higher numbers than men and permeating the workforce — at least at the entry and middle management levels. The women who make it to leadership roles perform better than their male peers, by several metrics. More women are C-suite executives than at any time in our nation’s history.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/more-women-starting-businesses-isnt-necessarily-good-news/
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I'm thinking she wants to keep women trying for upper echelon positions in the corporate world.
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My hospital hires consultants-- pays them big bucks for ideas that a) aren't implemented in a realistic manner for nurses, and b) if committees formed of nurses were allowed to address the particular issues, it would cost less and be more effective. Point of fact the committees we do have of nurses have come up with incredibly creative ideas that do work. One nurse on my unit designed a "acuity index" form (gives point of difficulty do care to patient) that's works very well.
Consultants are a great idea-- mini think tanks that do the paper work for you, and not all of their ideas were bad.
In hospitals, In healthcare in fact, there is enormous opportunity for quality assurance consultants, given the affordable healthcare act and Medicare bundling reimbursement---toss in nursing input, and you're golden
As a for instance
